There’s a store in my town that either had a bad receipt printer, or had their number wrong on it (my number differs from theirs by one digit). Either way, I get a call for them every few months. I don’t really mind.

I don’t get that many spam calls anymore, and the ones I do get, I just have fun with them (practice my very rough French, try out a new accent, or just wait about 10 seconds and burst into song). Unfortunately most of the junk calls these days are bots :(

I’d bring back Logsday.

Nothing at All in My Ass

I’m less of a former Christian and more of a thinks-outside-the-box Christian, but I think Mat Kearney is pretty solid regardless of what you believe. Sufjan Stevens is awesome too, but a bit of an aquired taste.

My first concert was Newsboys and Supertones (Newsboys was the opener, it was pretty early for them). Saw FIF a year or two later. Saw Insyderz at a smaller event a few years after that. To this day I get to say I’ve seen the three “big” Christian ska bands live.

What a wild time. Jars is still on a regular rotation for me (Flood and Liquid are both bangers, and their Christmas album is one of my favorite holiday albums).

What other band is going to write a song about Different Strokes? FIF is still part of my regular rotation.

This isn’t a meme, it’s a call to action

Not sure if it counts as it’s not really a pet name, but when one of us is looking for the other, we make dinosaur noises. The query has an upward inflection (“raahhhh?”) and the response has a downward inflection (“rahh!”).

At first it was just around the house. Now it’s in public too.

I shamelessly crossposted this to c/dadjokes

There are some benefits (depending on where you live), but if it’s not for you, keep doing what you’re doing. If your family or friends give you pressure, you might need to have a serious talk with them at some point, but otherwise you do you.

There are some situations where there’s a significant advantage, though. Adoption is one–most agencies will consider (legally married) couples before unmarried folks. Which is unfortunate, but it’s where things are at the moment. Probably some other cases too. But if you and your partner are of a similar mind, you can go to the courthouse and sign the paperwork, and even have a prenup in place if you want, and it doesn’t have to be a “thing.”

It’s also “heat” and “duck” combined.

To be fair, anything that follows Gold/Silver is going to feel lackluster. Because Gold and Silver are awesome (personal favorites).

My spirit animal

It’d have to be $1 million plus arrangements to move to the EU. If it weren’t for family here, I’d probably take that.

What? 17 is a triangle. 33 is nice and round.

Coding is totally obselete, bro. AI can totally write all the code, trust me bro. You just gotta know how to tell it what code to write, like learn some keywords and stuff, bro. Like, as long as you check how it produces looping mechanisms and tell it when it should use polymorphism and stuff, it’ll totally do all the work bro. You don’t need to know how to code, just the right sequence of keywords and commands so the AI can write all the code.

If they don’t call back to some of the '89 cartoon, I’m not interested.

That’s the problem though–any “AI” health bot is trained on existing data, and that’s created from a long history of biased, religious, prejudiced health professionals. And assuming the bots are trained on as much data as possible, they might even be worse, because older data will be that much more biased and prejudiced.

Also, in this case, Bill Gates is full of shit. AI will be nowhere near sophisticated enough in 10 years to do most jobs.

We joke a lot because what is happening in the US is really scary.

Ubuntu minus snaps plus a better DE? Mint.